Best Feature Film: “Sins of the Father”
Best Ohio Film: “Leviticus”
Best Micro Film: “Poison Controlled”
Best Short Film: “Infernum Obscura”
Best Overall Film: “Sins of the Father”
Viewers Choice Award: “Leviticus”
Best Short Script: “Surprise Baby Shower”
Best Feature Script: “Neon Crimson”
Best Overall Script: “Neon Crimson”
Horror Hotel 2023 Scream Queen: Cassie Lisk
Horror Hotel 2023 Scream King: Sean Oliver
FX Makeup, Horror winner: J. Stoddart
FX Makeup, Fantasy winner: J. Stoddart
Best Actor, Feature Film: Aleks Paunovic, “Puppet Killer”
Best Actor, Ohio Film: James Burney, “Leviticus”
Best Actor, Short Film: Brett Brooks, “The Mages of Rage and The Desecration of The House of Mimicry”
Best Actress, Feature Film: Sammie Lideen, “Forever Home”
Best Actress, Ohio Film: Athena Murzda, “Beast of Walton Street”
Best Actress, Short Film: Danielle Lang, “Infernum Obscura”
Best Cinematography, Feature Film: “Welcome to Kittytown”
Best Cinematography, Ohio Film: “Highway to Hell”
Best Cinematography, Short Film: “Antiques”
Best Director, Feature Film: Vanessa M. H. Powers, “Sins of the Father”
Best Director, Ohio Film: Tyler N. Thomas, “Leviticus”
Best Director, Short Film: James-
Best Editing, Feature Film: “Forever Home”
Best Editing, Ohio Film: “Chains of Redemption”
Best Editing, Short Film: “The Mages of Rage and The Desecration of The House of Mimicry”
2023 Genre Awards
*To qualify for award placement, entries had to receive a score of 85% or higher.*
*Additional film award nominees to be announced by May 1.
Winners in these additional categories and our overall / best of fest winners will be announced at the end of the festival award ceremony.*
2023 FILM SCORING WINNERS
1. Darius Barker
2. Michael D. Jones, Sr.
3. William Browne
4. Nick Mallon
5. Grace Keir
6. Cristina Santiago
7. Avery Schwartz
8. Yousef Fareed
2023 FILM AWARDS
FEATURE – EXPERIMENTAL
1. Terror Toons 4
2. Agatha
3. Innerself
4. Night and Day
FEATURE – FANTASY
1. Beneath Us All
2. Summer of the Wolf
3. It Wants Blood!
FEATURE – HORROR
1. Sins of the Father
2. Worst Laid Plans
3. Death Metal
4. Tales from the Narrow Bridge
FEATURE – HORROR-
1. Welcome to Kittytown
2. Puppet Killer
3. Curse of the Werehuahua
4. Forever Home
FEATURE – SCI-
1. Troubleshooters
2. Bigfoot: Blood Trap
FEATURE – SUSPENSE/THRILLER
1. Pursued
2. Leviticus
3. Chains of Redemption
4. The American Ripper
MICRO –
1. The Spiders Whisper
2. Lovers of Avignon
3. Yo-
4. Met(EYE)morphosis
MICRO –
1. Traveller
2. The Other Side
MICRO –
1. Last Shot
2. Unhappy Halloween
3. Black Kettles and Pots
4. Last Lullaby
MICRO –
1. Poison Controlled
2. Love Sucks
3. Layoff
4. Bigfoot Bros
MICRO –
1. Sourdough
MUSIC VIDEO
1. Cemetery
2. Smoke
3. The Rise of Gemini
SHORT – HORROR
1. Infernum Obscura
2. BecoME
3. Chickaboom
4. MERGER
SHORT – HORROR-
1. Highway to Hell
2. Dead, but Whatever
3. The Mages of Rage
4. V.R.O.O.M.
SHORT – SCI-
1. Old West End
2. 11 O’Clock
SHORT – SLASHER
1. Greed & Gore
2. Over the Limit
SHORT – STUDENT
1. Don’t Lose Faith
SHORT – SUSPENSE/THRILLER
1. Heavy Vinyl
2. ANTIQUES
3. Hellscape
4. Initiative
HONORABLE MENTION AWARDS: FILMS
The Appointment with the Plague Doctor
Beast of Walton Street
Cooking with Fish
Crashing at Your Place
Dilemma
Enter the Room
The Eucharist
Feral Cravings
The Forager
Free Range
Impending Catastrophe
IVI ELV
The Jiggles
Jim’s Room
No Pain, No Gain
Scavengers
SURPRISE!
2023 SCRIPT AWARDS
FEATURE – FANTASY
1. Neon Crimson
2. Spelunker
3. Widdershin
4. Sacred Sun
FEATURE – HORROR
1. The Place I Belong
2. Lockdown
3. Misfortune Cookies
4. Rise
FEATURE – HORROR-
1. Bob
2. Mammoth
3. From Below
4. The Real Housewives of Necopolis
FEATURE – SCI-
1. Splashdown
2. Silo
3. The Four of Us Are Dying
4. Morbidly
FEATURE –
1. Falling from the Sky
2. Coyote Call
3.Wound Watchers
4. Vampire Hei$t
SHORT – FANTASY
1. Let’s Go Kill God
2. UnGenesis
3. Traveler
4. The Other Side
SHORT – HORROR
1. The Uninvited
2. Bad Words
3. Comedy Killer
4. Little Bug
SHORT – HORROR-
1. Surprise Baby Shower
2. Demon
3. Closing Day
SHORT – SCI-
1. The Avon Lady
2. Sven
3. Ain’t No Such Thing as Zombies
4. The Last Race
SHORT – SUSEPNSE/THRILLER
1. The First Day of School
2. Stray
3. Free Pizza
4. Grundy Lane
TV PILOT
1. Macabre: Yarns to Chill and Thrill
2. Fear the Reaper
3. Londinium
HONORABLE MENTION AWARDS: SCRIPTS
Abraham Van Helsing and the Hunt for Jack the Ripper
As Scared As You
At the Mercy of Faith
At the Mercy of Faith: Alternate Ending
At the Mercy of Faith: Terror Version
The Birth
Breathe
The Boneyard
The Break In
The Chosen
The Closet
The Depths of Malibu
Donavan Emery, The Android & Himself
The Eat-
The Follower
Ghosts Live Forever
Good Ole Joe
Hair Wraith
Ice Pick Murders
The Last Swing Around the Pole
Morituriosis
Robot Asteroid
Shi
Sorelle
Survivor
The Wonder Years
